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    Fix broken "pipe: use event aware wakeups" optimization · 28e58ee8
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Commit e462c448
    
     ("pipe: use event aware wakeups") optimized the pipe
    event wakeup calls to avoid wakeups if the events do not match the
    requested set.
    
    However, the optimization was buggy, in that it didn't actually use the
    correct sets for the events: when we make room for more data to be
    written, the pipe poll() routine will return both the POLLOUT _and_
    POLLWRNORM bits.  Similarly for read.
    
    And most critically, when a pipe is released, that will potentially
    result in POLLHUP|POLLERR (depending on whether it was the last reader
    or writer), not just the regular POLLIN|POLLOUT.
    
    This bug showed itself as a hung gnome-screensaver-dialog process, stuck
    forever (or at least until it was poked by a signal or by being traced)
    in a poll() system call.
    
    Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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